Please do more updates videos on this Celebrity. My Dad had a grey one played a huge part in my childhood in the early 90s. This car deserves to be remembered
I've noticed the early model A-bodies are much more rare than the late model ones. The Celebrity was America's best selling car in 1986, in a way it's somewhat surprising there isn't more interest in these cars. (For instance, if Hot Wheels or Greenlight or Revell started making diecast or model kits of "cars you remember when you were younger" or something like that, I'd imagine there'd be more interest than you'd think.)
Great save! I've wanted one of these A-body Diesels since I was a teen but I found a Coupe Deville with a 5.7 Diesel that I currently own. Hope you can find parts to repair it!
It looks like a fun new project. You have several tasks, but nothing to challenge your skills. Considering the miles, the body, the interior and options, for the price you couldn't not buy it. I look forward to seeing it humming down the highway.
My first car was a 1989 Celebrity with the gas v6 engine. A wonderful car, just the right size. It was 4 years old and had just under 60,000 miles on it when I got it. I drove it for the rest of high school and all the way through college before trading it for a 2001 Impala.
Nice find here. All the desirable options IE electric rear window defroster, power window, door locks, seat, console, bucket seats, cruise control, tilt wheel, time delay wipers, wire wheel covers, etc.
there were some reproduction olds v6 diesel headgaskets being made but I believe they are gone. However cometic will make one off MLS headgaskets for a reasonable price.
I used to own one of these and Your making me feel old....lol..... but I had mine 25 years ago (at least) and it had over 300k on it. The death nail was something went in the injection pump and I could not find the parts back then, I cant imagine finding the parts got easier, but that was before the interwebs. Good luck.
I had a 1985 loaded maroon Chevrolet Celebrity diesel company car and I liked it,, but even in the two years I drove it it had too many problems the biggest one being a blown head gasket at 15000 miles. It was good on the open road and had great air conditioning. It also ate front brakes for some reason which I never understood because I babied it..
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I love the 83 model never had a diesel model. I currently have an 86 cl mfi 2.8 that I'm trying to work on and get into road ready condition. Will say some parts are a tad scarce. since so many of them got destroyed
I like the old GM diesel products. It's a common myth that they were converted gas engines. But as I understand it, it's easy to think they are conversions but in actuality it was a lot of common tooling. First ones had issues with the blocks that was fixed with better metallurgy etc. My dad had a 1989 gas version of this with the 6cyl. and it was a column shift. Otherwise other than the front end, looks like they didn't change much over the 80's
Yes you're right, in fact most of GM's diesels weren't as bad as they're made out to be. The original first gen 1977-79 Olds 350 diesel was really the only converted gas to diesel of all their diesels. That's really the one that killed GM's reputation on diesels but GM learned fast what a mistake that was. They worked fast to improve that engine and make sure the rest of their diesels were far more stout and engineered for proper diesel operation. By the time the Celebrity came out in '83 this 4.3 V6 was not just warmed over from the VORTEC line but it's own diesel from the ground up.
@@joe6096 yup need stronger casting for compression ignition. I do recall reading something about the very first ones being conversions but I wasn't sure if it was true
Kind of too bad. Even though it was only 85 HP, the later 4.3-liter V6 engine, the 1982 model year, did not have the same problems as the V8. The V6 has a denser bolt pattern, but by the time the engines were somewhat trouble-free the damage had already been done.
My mom had a Celebrity wagon that color brown. Close to the same interior except hers had a bench seat in the front and column shift. Definitely not a diesel though. Hers had a 2.8 V6. Loved that car.
How low is the coolant? There are enough other reasons for it to be low - rotted frost plugs, hoses, radiator damage etc. - that it might not be an engine problem (yet). If the oil isn't obviously water-contaminated and milkshaky, see how it behaves when it's full of coolant. When it's low on coolant, the steam you are seeing with the cap off isn't unusual. It's difficult to know what happened before, even if it did overheat. It sounds pretty good. Hopefully you can fill the rad up and find an external leak that explains the coolant loss. The prior owner might have given up on it prematurely - the engines had gotten a bad reputation, there were gas-powered vehicles with similar fuel economy and performance without the hassle, and it all paints the picture of why they would not have had much patience to troubleshoot a car nobody (at the time) wanted.
From what I understand it's not uncommon to get around 6.5-6.7 l/100km. With my Cadillac with the v6 diesel and the overdrive transmission i average 5.8-6 l/100km
Used to have an 02 trailblazer with a 4.3 gas. Woulda loved to swap 4.3 diesel into it just for the holy crap factor. I'm sure they wouldn't match up and be a huge pain in the wallet to do but world be interesting
The high compression only plays a secondary role in the destruction....the volatility of the ether is significantly higher than that of diesel and actually auto ignites BEFORE top dead center. What's the weak link?....head gasket. Not a rumor.
